Founder: Lt Col. Hem Lohumi SM (Retd)
72 year old expert mountaineer, a gallantry award decorated soldier, Lt Col Hem Lohumi participated in setting up India’s First and Second Permanent Scientific Stations “Dakshin Gangotri” and “Maitri” in Antarctica.
A multifaceted person who served as a mountaineering instructor, participated in and led mountaineering expeditions from 1975 to 1987, including to Nanda Devi, the second highest and also taught Control Systems to undergraduate engineering students, two decades in Africa, constructing roads and buildings as a part of a corporate world, Hem is the team leader of the first ever Mundmaal parikrama of Ganga.
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